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Near 3000
Brazil Labor Deaths a Year
Brasilia - Close to 3,000 Brazilians die per
year in work related accidents, revealed
statistics of Social Prevention released to
mark the World Work Safety and Health Day.
The figures also demonstrate that, in 2007,
there were 653,090 work accidents
registered, far higher than the 512,232 of
the year before although there are no
reports regarding the type of injuries.
On the other hand, according to the
coordinator of the Tripartite Commission of
Health and Safety of Work, Remigio Todeschni,
labor accidents cost 42 billion reales
(about 18.5 billion dollars, which
represents 1.8 percent of the Brazilian
Gross National Product.
According to members of this state
commission one of the main challenges is to
prepare professionals to identify
work-related complaints and accidents, which
from 2006 to 2008 the number of reports
increased 152 percent. |
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